Re: PARP ::was::::Re: procmail abandonded?
LuKreme <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.procmail |
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On May 27, 2012, at 18:03, Robert Bonomi <[email protected]> wrote: > What is that 'mysterious' bug? If you're referring to procmail inserting > a '>' at the beginning of a line starting with 'From ', it is not a bug. > Quite the contrary, it is a _documented_ feature. 'Classical' mailreaders > took a line starting with 'From ' as the _start_ of a message. Therefore, > procmail intentionally 'quotes' such a line in a message body, so that > mail clients will not be mislead into thinking this is the start of a new > message. It's not supposed to escape the line unless you are saving to a mbox file, but it does it seemingly at random when writing to maildirs.